Valkyria Chronicles - Overall Series Impressions & Total Series Rating

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The Good:
- Nice animation and artwork.
- Good OP and ED Themes.
- A surprisingly radical change compared to the video game in every way.

The Bad:
- Could have had more episodes to explain any missed out plots. The ending kinda felt rushed and I felt that the directors could have expanded some points in this series that could've been expanded. (26 episodes is too short for this imo).
- The Love Triangle could have been removed entirely altogether, especially for a series this short. If the directors wanted a love triangle, they should've made the series longer (which refers to my first point).
- Series could've used more groundbreaking action. Sure we had some good action here and there but for an anime like this we really could have used more.
- Lack of Edelweiss T_T
- Certain characters could've been developed way more. I felt that random characters were thrown there for absolutely no reason and the director neglected some of the more important characters in this series. Heck, even Ramal had good enough potential to be expanded until the directors got him killed for no reason.

I give this series a 5/10. Series had potential but as the series went on most things just fell flat on its face. (I'm not comparing this to the video game)

I mentioned in my other post in this topic how my mom was watching the anime with me without knowledge of the game. Well, she finished watching today and gave the anime a 9.5/10, points off for "too many characters to keep track of"

I mentioned in my other post in this topic how my mom was watching the anime with me without knowledge of the game. Well, she finished watching today and gave the anime a 9.5/10, points off for "too many characters to keep track of"

Probably the major complaint is the ending where it seems like they would go through the effort of developing characters but then did not go through and ends at a very sudden notes...

Of coarse though, at the same time it's nice to see other side characters making appearances.

While I agree that they changing the plot is good and show some difference..but I really really thought that some part they took out are too symbolic and touching that they shouldn't have taken it out.

I really enjoyed the series, with each episode making me want to watch the next. The animation is really unique and fresh, specially how they shaded all the colors except for the face to show shadow.

The problem that I have with the series is that some characters gets pretty annoying. Especially Welkin... He got really painful to watch near the upper half of the series, but thankfully, he redeemed himself at the end.

Lastly, if the anime didn't have a game predecessor with a good ending, I would be sufficed with the anime's ending(it is alot better then many other series). BUT it does have a predecessor, thus the ending of the anime lacked in many details that made the game ending so wonderful.

It's me or the anime is rated as one of the worth show of the 3 last years with Shuffle Memories?

Not sure about the accuracy of that but it is interesting to note that this series has apparently not generated even a single 10-voting fanboy. I think this is the only subforum series on the site with that distinction. Granted, this thread hasn't been open that long, but compare this with Regios, which has fewer overall votes and was an absolute steaming pile (my rating of 5 was far too generous in hindsight), yet still has multiple 10 votes, and it doesn't really cast this series in a very positive light.

I finished the game a while ago and thought it would be nice to watch the anime adaption just to get more of the VC world. Random thoughts...

- OP/ED were very weak. The 1st OP just really screamed out "generic". 2nd OP was a bad case of trying too hard to be exciting and epic. I think it's a bad sign if an OPs can't even hook me in and I'm very lenient on OPs. ED1 was the only one I didn't mind watching a few times mainly just to see chibi versions of the characters (chibi Selvaria cooking = lulz).

- Some of the character models looked weird during the first half of the series, Isara's eyes were HUUUGE and spaced out funny in proportion to her face. A lot of scenes she was in look like those "QUALITY" pics you see on 2chan or something at times. I thought Selvaria looked much better in the game than in the anime.

- I don't know how the perspective of someone who hasn't played the game first and watching this anime would be but I think they would probably be confused at some of the extra side characters and some of their moments onscreen would seem pointless. Like me I personally got excited whenever Marina was onscreen and even more when she actually sniped something. Also watching Vyse getting killed off so quickly after being introduced was kind of funny in a cruel way.

- They downplayed or ruined a lot of great moments in the game in the anime imo

Spoiler:

-- Isara's death. Also her "true dream" for Welkin was left out entirely, it really hurts her character effect in the series overall. Instead they opt to gimp her death and make Welkin become a douche until Alicia forced him to grieve for Isara properly.

-- Selvaria/Maximllion "relationship". I like the way the game handled it better than the anime though it was nice they tried to make more background info for how the two meet it just ended up being a waste of flashback time.

-- Rosie actually reflecting on her ideals of Darcasns and actually opening up her heart during the Darcasn resistance operation. Instead they focused more on hinting on the RosiexZaka pairing.

-- Gregor's death sucked bad, like he just gave up.

-- No Selvaria last stand battle. Also her death, felt more emotional in the game and not like it was just randomly pulled out the ass.

-- What happen to Jager in this anime? They include most of game's skirmishers except one of the more epic ones, his tank battle. He was also one of the more leveled headed people in the series, had a very "noble" air about him, and they ruined his character towards the end of the series. He didn't really do anything at all in the end.

-- Faldio was doing good until the Alicia love confession...who greenlighted that change? Then his character got worse towards the end and his "death" sucked since he wasn't even acknowledged in the epilogue.

-- Kind of weak how they forced the final battle into being only Welkin/Alica vs. Maximllion while everyone else gets shot up just to forced a cheesy "Omg Alicia I can finally confess my love to you" moment when it's all said and done. I mean it was chessy in the game too but at least it was in a better place of the story! Final battle in the game was epic because everyone was fighting and they were playing that theme music from when Alicia and Selvaria first fought (why was that music only used in that fight anyways?).

-The few changes I did like (or almost liked)

Spoiler:

-- Ramal, I was really starting to like him and thought he would fulfill the void of Isara's true dream since the game's engineers were missing but once she died he seem to have no purpose anymore. Which was sad because Ramal and Isara relationship was cute in it's own way.
-- More insight on Maximllion background. In the game all you got was the brief flashback of the train exploding...which was enough for the most part but the anime really fleshed out the fact that the higher ups really hated Maximilion. When Max killed his own assassains before Selvaria arrived, that added some more cool factor to him.

For the most it seems if the anime just stucked with the game's plot it would be fine which is odd because Gungrave (another Sega game first turned anime) was a good series mainly because the anime counterpart changed quite a few things from the original game's plot.

A. Love triangle that made me facepalm over both faldio and welkin for the entire second half of the show. Went from liking them to hating them.

B. Maximillian ... you know I really thought there would be something that would evoke something out of me from this guy. Instead he just comes off an a nutter who dies an insignificant death. I mean the fact he did not care for ANY of his comrades just makes him ridiculously 1-sided generic bad guy where in the first half of the show you saw some of the nice sides to the "bad guys". Was hoping for an ending where I actually felt kind of sorry that they end up losing because of X or Y or Z instead of being like well its nice they died because he seems like a giant douche.